Telephone toll-box.



No. 885,429. PATENTBD APR. 2l, 1908. 0. BRISBOIS.

TELEPHONE TOLL BOX. APPLIGATIONFILED MAY 14,1907.

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ODILON BRISBOIS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TORICHARD W. POELMA AND ONE-THIRD TO MARTIN DAHL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TELEPHoNE TOLL-Box.

Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 14, 1907.

riatented April 21, 190s.

serial No. 373,658.

inner wall of said chute is provided with a To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, ODILON BRIsBoIs, citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois,

have invented certain new and useful Imcoin actuated registerin devices, and also to prevent the coin from t rowing said devices through a suflicient arc to throw the registering means over to register the deposit of morev coins than have actually been deposited, the object being to provide simple and efficient devices of this character and consists'in the features of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accom anying drawings illustrating this invention: igure 1 is a view in vertical section of a tele hone toll box, the cover tions respectively.

thereof and the side plate of the coin-chute being removed. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4 are horizontal sections on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2 showing the operating parts in different posi- This invention relates to that class of telephone toll boxes in which a turn-stile is disposed in the ath of the coins to be deposited in the cashox and turned byl said coins through a given arc in passing.

The invention consists in* providing means normally disposed in position to prevent said turnstile from being turned in either direction through an arc sufficient to change the position of the registering means and-which are thrown by the passing coin into position to permit said turnstileto be turned by said coin through the desired arc, and which after the passage of the coin spring back to their normal position. n

In Said drawings, A indicates that portion of the coin chute leading to the safe B of the toll box. The outer wall of said chute is hulged outwardly as at C and provides a lipl narrow vertical slot F op osite the bulged portion C of the outer wa the portions on each side of said slot F being free and forming depending tongues G having their free ends bent inwardly and coacting with the bulged portion C of said outer wall to form an enlarged passage through which a coin or token may readily pass and be deflected laterally. l

.Rotatably mounted within the toll box in any suitable manner is a turnstile H adapted to revolve in a vertical plane, said turnstile being so disposed that the free ends of the arms thereof project successively through the said slot F into the path of coins traveling through said passage A and by means of which said turnstile is rotated. The latter is suitably geared to a meter but illustration of the latter and of said gearing is omitted from illustration as being superfluous. Rigid with said turnstile is a square cam I on whlch the free end portion of a flat-spring J bears, the latter being suitably mounted at its other end on a part of the box. Said s ring serves to maintain said turnstile norma ly in osition to maintain the arm thereof projectmg through said slot F in a horizontal position and also serves when said turnstile has been turned through an arc greater than forty-five degrees to impart an impetus thereto to`turn the same through the balance of an arc of ninety degrees provided of course, that the turnstile has four arms as shown herein. In rotatin the turnstile through the first forty-five egrees the pressure of said spring must ob viously be overcome. The saidturn stile must be so mounted as to be very easily revolved and said spring J must necessarily be very light so as not to offer too great resistance to the revolution of the said turnstile. Consequently it is possible that a sudden implilse lmparted to the turnstile by a falling coin striking an arm thereof, that such turnstile will continue to rotate through an arc greater than ninety degrees, thus actuating the meter to indicate the deposit of more than the true number of coins passing into the safe. It is also possible that collectors andvrepair men may either accidentally or purposely operate the turnstile and thus cause confusion. VTo prevent these contingencies, I provide an arm K pivotally secured to a rojection L on the rear wall of the box and w 'ch at its free end projects through aslot M in the wall of the coin-chute. Adj acent its freeend, said arm is provided with a` projection Pis bent to extend upwardly at an j incline at its free arm portion, the said shorter v armQ thereof being maintained normally outof the ath of said turnstile. When the coin to be eposited in the safe B passes through said chute A, it strikes the free end portion of said arm K and forces the same out of its path. At the same time it strikes the arm of said turnstile disppsed in itspath thus turning the latter. Thile said coin is passing and rotating said turnstile it maintains the` projection N of said arm K out of the path of the next succeeding arm of said turnstile until the latter has passed. vAt this 'time the coin will have passed and said arm will be returned to its normal position. During the time that said projection N is maintained out of the path of said turnstile', the free arm Q will be maintained in the path thereof but behind the next succeeding arm jto be moved to project into the path of the next following coin to be deposited, so that said turnstile ma move freely through the desired arc. Be ore the next arm to assume a vertical position reaches said free arm Q, however, the latter will again be out of its path'. 1

To operate the turnstile by hand it will eeaaae readily be seen that it will be necessary to siv'multaneonsly manipulate the arm K. Owing to the delicacy and relative inaccessibility of these parts, such-operation and manipulation will be rendered very diicult.

I claim as my invention:

. 1. ln a telephone-toll box, the combination with a coin actuated turnstile, of a stop normally disposed in the path thereof and adapted to prevent rotation thereof, a stop .thereof,'said means com rising a springll actuy dis- 'posed in the 'path of said turnstile to vprevent ated arm, a projection t ereon normal rotation thereof in either direction, an L- shaped projection between the ends of said arm, a stop disposed on the free end thereof.- oppositely disposed to said first-named projection and located rearwardly thereof, said stop being normally disposed out of thepath of said turnstile, the coinv actuating said turnstile being adapted to actuate said arm to movesaid projection and said stop to permit said turnstile to rotate through a given arc. f

In testimony-whereof Ifhave-signed my name in presenceI of two subscribing wit.-

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' ODILON BRISBOIS. Witnesses:

RUDOLPH WM. Lo'rz. A. FRANCK Pamrrsow. 

